COLUMBIANA, Alabama - Shelby County Circuit Clerk Mary
Harris wants people who believe they are part of the Harpserville Municipal
Court investigation to know her office is not yet handling any matters in the
case.

"We're getting a large number of phone calls," Harris said
in an interview on Tuesday.

"The main thing they need to know is our office has
absolutely nothing right now. As long as the (state) attorney general is doing
their investigation, we will not have anything. We won't even have an index of
names of who has got a case in Harpersville," she said.

Joy Patterson, spokeswoman for the Alabama Attorney
General's Office, said today she could not comment about any investigation or
whether one exists in the matter. Harpersville Mayor Theoangelo Perkins did not
a phone request for comment concerning the investigation.

Significant concerns exist over the practices of the
Harpersville Municipal Court involving probationary procedures and how much
people have been paying into the system to resolve their cases.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office along with the Alabama
Attorney General's Office executed a search warrant at the Harpersville City
Hall on Aug. 9 to obtain records from the municipal court and police
department.

Until her office receives filed documents to put on the court docket in
connection with the Harpersville matter, Harris said people who believe they
are involved in the meantime can provide updated contact information to her
including a copy of their citation.

"If they have got a case and they have changed addresses ...
mail us a copy of their ticket and their new address. When we get an update
from the attorney general's office, we will have something when we start
setting up cases and putting them on the docket," she said.

"Right now we don't have anything," she added. "We can't
put a case on the docket when we don't have a ticket or a copy of a ticket. We
don't have anything to put on the docket."

In the meantime, her office has a phone line for people
to leave their updated contact information. They can call (205) 669-8816.

"It's a matter of them leaving a message, an updated
address, and once the investigation is done and we've received the paperwork,
we can put them on a docket and mail notices out," Harris said.